1- Contact at Least 5 People at Your Company Or a Nearby Company Who Use Information Systems

Assignments

Chapter one

1- Contact at least 5 people at your company or a nearby company who use information systems.

a. list the systems

b. the position titles of the users

c. business functions that the system support

2- Create an organization chart of your company or a nearby company by using Microsoft Word or a similar program, or you can draw it by hand.

Chapter two – system planning

1- Use the Internet to find an example of cooperate mission statement.

List at least three different mission statements.

2- Suppose you own a travel agency or a health food restaurant in your city.

Use your imagination to write a mission statement and at least three goals for the travel agency or restaurant.

Chapter 3 system analysis

1- Design a questionnaire to learn more about the registration process at your school or how customers place orders at a local business.

2- Draw a context diagram, a diagram 0, and lower level diagram that represent the registration system at an imaginary school.

Then describe each primitive function in your level DFDs.

3- Visit the IT department at your school, company, or at a local company and determine whether the information systems were developed in-house or purchased as software packages. If packages were acquired, determine what customizing was done, if any.

Write a brief memo describing the results of your visit.

Chapter 4 system design

1-Examine various application software packages to find examples of good and bad user interface design.

Document your research and design a new good user interfaces for bad ones.

2- Search the internet to find examples of good and bad data entry screens

Document your research and design a new good data entry screens for bad ones.

3- Draw ERD for the imaginary school that you created its DFDs before in the analysis assignment.

Chapter 5 implementation

1- Design a generic test plan that describes the testing for an imaginary system.